Think it’s more a case of journos seeing that we’ll probably be selling Gordon so will want to spend that money straight away. Easy to link us with less than 2 weeks in the window because realistically there’ll be hard work in getting a lot of deals done, the players they link just might “fall through” or “not have enough time to compete it” all that kind of nonsense.
For example this lad from Napoli is never happening, cost them nearly €20m only a few years ago, still young and plays for them. Not to mention Napoli are famously difficult to buy from.
I ignore ,osteources thst aren’t really relieable mate, the Januzaj one has just thrown me, as the source is reliable, I liked him as a kid, but that seems to be his feeling and never kicked on. Seems a bit moving deck chairs in the titanic going from Dele to him.
We might not sign him, but gives a sense of the market we are in, 1 free, 2 loans, 30 mill signing and a McNeill.